Well keep plugging away at the "hamfest" circuit giving qrp talks - it's an
uphill battle at times. I was talking to Byron WA8LCZ a while back and his
club has become receptive to QRP but if I remember correctly he said it took
a few times.

I gave a QRP talk this past summer at a local Newfoundland Provincial
hamfest to about 30 attendees and it was a lot of fun, but... To warm up
the audience I asked a few questions

1. Looking around (I knew I'd get some stirring here) - "How many folks have
ever built a kit?" - Yeah - good show of hands (they remembered Heathkit).

2. "How many folks solder their own connectors etc?" Yeah - more hands -
this was looking promising.

3. Finally the BIG question to get this crowd aroused - this was going to be
something, while holding up my little New England QRP Club 40-40 I asked the
question "How many folks want to build this QRP transceiver kit and bring
some fun back into your ham radio lives????" NOT A SINGLE HAND....

So that was the start of my 20 minute presentation - boy it took some
drawn-from-within resources to keep this audience awake - hi. (P.S. NEVER,
NEVER give a talk on the Sunday afternoon session of a hamfest - hi OR
don't eat garlic for lunch that day...)